Which school system is BETTER? Education in Germany vs. USA - Pt. 1 | Feli from Germany

I think tens of thousands of dollars kind of plays down the fact that it can be upwards of $60,000 a year or $30,000 a semester. Our doctors graduate with something like $300,000 in debt if there lucky.

We had to take final exams at the end of the year every year of high school and in most cases unless you had really high grades all year you failed the year if you failed the final exams and if you failed the final exam in 2 or more subjects your last year you didn’t graduate and had to go to summer school or retake the school year the next year to graduate

Lots of kids go to preschool also which starts a year or two before kindergarten

Or you can become a you - Tuber by feli. .does it need a education?

I went to private schools in California, Berlin, and Zurich. Zurich was better in language instruction. Berlin was more fun. US was OK, but weird with the security drills and armed guards. I would rather have gone to school just in Berlin.

Short answer people America is garbage 😂😂. South Korea ranks number 1 on every study

In USA the taxes are much less than in Germany ( direct and indirect taxes ). Germany is providing free public university education at the expense of higher individual tax.

You went to college in the USA, in TN? What was your major?

Interesting.

well, living in north germany, we weren't forced to religion classes.

Why are a lot of words on your channel blocked out? Is it cause I’m in the US?

The German system is obviously better, which can be seen already on the fact that you can apply to foreign universities with that grade and don't need to take a second test independent of it. I don't know any American who thinks that high schools in America are doing well.

My wife and I are in the Dominican. We saw someone who looked just like you.

Sorry not any more! The students from 3rd grade to their junior year in high school have to take the staar test to graduate! It’s been like that for 25 years!

Y elementary school when to the eighth grade when I graduated eighth grade I went to high school

One major flaw of the German school system is the lack of appropriate opportunities for neurodivergent people.
Which is something I had to deal with and something that my son has to deal with as well.
Which leads to the next major flaw: Home schooling is illegal.
Private schools aren't that expensive but they're also not good.
Boarding schools are hella expensive and not necessarily as high standard as they claim to be.
Not high standard enough o meet the educational needs of a neurodivergent at least.
Because neurotypical teachers don't understand neurodivergent students.
What is a normal person supposed to teach someone with an IQ like that of Einstein?
So, because of these issues you end up much below your means and become depressed and have to fight for the right to live your own life your way.
By the way, rich people don't have smarter kids, they can just buy whatever they want and then put their kids in positions they didn't have to earn, that's my observation as a former boarding school kid.
Most of the time rich kids are more antisocial and dumber than others. Intellect has nothing to do with status.

I cannot help, but private high schools in the US (2023) are actually so much MORE expensive! (I m talking about 80-90k per yr) (I m in MA)

The American school system was awful when I was a kid (25-30) years ago and it is far worse now. Discipline problems are the number one reason and a useless curriculum is close behind. I cannot tell you how much valuable classroom instructional time was wasted on movies. In high school I had a history teacher who just showed us taped episodes of the History Channel with a worksheet he handwrote.

Any education system is better than the gringo one.

In my school career back then in Hessen we normally went into primary school, grade 1-4 (some kids went into the Gymnasium straight away thereafter), and more in a comprehensive (Gesamt) school, where there was another level at entry, called Foerderstufe for grade 5 and 6, where they had two more years to evaluate what level of schooling you would have then (Gymnasium/Real- of Hauptschule which were all present in that Gesamtschule) from 7th grade on. During Foerderstufe you could even be in different levels of schooling for Math and English (A-level for those who were really good in it, B-level for those average and C-level for those were not so good in it and I was among the latter in both, my interest in English only kicked in in 7th grade deeming me much better). This system ceased then once you got into 7th grade then where the whole curriculum was depending into the level you got into anyway (Haupt-/Realschulemor Gymnasium)r. Bit complicated to explain. And yes an apprenticeship is often still king in Germany, companies are often not willing to accept years of experience in jobs, over having an apprenticeship on your CV. Even though, unless you have trained in that very same company you're applying for and know all their processes already - I think in any other job you need to start from scratch learning how processes work there, so for general jobs like office work or sales assistant I find this quite narrow minded to ignore experience from applicants. Having done an apprenticeship in the field wanted does not guarantee someone is good in it (maybe someone has just done the training and then worked something else and has no more experience than those 2 or 3 years), whereas someone having ten years of experience may not have an apprenticeship under their belt, but proven record in having worked successfully in that field for and extended amount of time and I think that is even more valuable. (of course that doesn't apply for any positions you need to have studied for). I think it would be important that employers were more open in Germany, giving people a chance to proof themself in the job and who knows in the best case it works out and the person can become an asset to the company. It's worth a try in any case. Having learned the basics is fair enough on one side, but experience is invaluable aswell, any gaps you will fill up while doing the job anyway.

At one time i would argue for US, but now the US sytem teaches trash!0

Too much emphasis is put on going to college/university. It has created a paper ceiling: getting jobs without a college degrees, certifications, etc., is so much harder than it should be. Choosing a trade, instead, is so looked down upon that there is actually a labor shortage brewing, despite their incomes actually being competitive with jobs requiring a degree, and there is no debt to be paid off.

In US things are simplified, but in Germany things are complicated. And too much burocrasy...

As an american one of the biggest differences is German schools aren't shooting rages.

I like that you guys have religious classes. We could have them in America as long as you take the religion that you want to take I don't see the big deal. Religious classes are a waste of time. Trust me

I think that 10 years old is a bit too young to see if they're smart enough to go to college or go to a higher school. There was some things that 10 that I struggled with but then later on I like really got it. I feel like this is just to prejudice. I do like this system. If you don't want to go to a college you can do an apprenticeship as young as 15. This system would work if kids could choose that here where I live.

You may have covered this topic. How available are entrepreneur or small business opportunities.

Perhaps I'm unique in this perspective, but I personally feel that the idea of real roading children into a particular path at the right old age of 13 to 15 is absolutely disgusting and a complete deal breaker irregardless of the quality of a school system. The entire point to having a high quality school system is to enable children to make the decision as to what career path they want as an adult by giving them the necessary skills to succeed in any given path in life. That's not to say I disagree with the idea of enabling people to choose a trade at an earlier age, as I entirely agree with the idea that college and university are not necessarily the best choice for a particular individual, I don't agree with the idea of outright denying them the possibility to get into secondary and tertiary education simply because they underperform in primary education, especially when you consider the fact that some kids thrive in the arts but have a hard time with math and science, for example. This is a debilitating flaw when you consider the fact that the arts are an educated career path instead of a trade career path.

You forgot the "Wirtschaftsschule" in Bavaria as an interesting an important alternative for Realschule from 6th to 10th grade. :)

did you ever look at the percentage of ivy league acceptance rate broken down by coming from private/public schools?

I just moved to Germany and I want to go to university and for that do I have to go to Gymnasium?

so can I do ausbildung and go to university at the same time?

Fantastic video! I have to say though that US high school education hasn't always looked like it does now. We used to have pretty solid vocational tracks, but those were slowly killed off starting in the late 70s. We had guidance counselors who were honest with kids and could steer them toward the track that best fit them (this starting in 9th grade). Those tracks were generally academic, trades/technical and business. At some point, kids were told you MUST go to college or you were something lesser. 11th and 12th graders in shop built a house that was designed by a student draftsman. By the time my son was in high school anything resembling that level was long gone. I tracked academic, but 3 years of woodshop classes has provided me a life-long hobby and the ability to work on my own house.

Meanwhile, we have a huge need for trades workers in the US. And, (this is huge), you many times can get that training free AND earn some money via joining a union or finding the right company (after high school or via work-study programs).

On another note, we have a Siemens plant in my area. They had a program set up with the local high school that greatly resembled the German system. It unfortunately lasted only 3 years or so.

America began to adopt German educational ideas very strongly c1880-1915. Some American stereotypes of Germans/y date from Bismarckian times. I am pretty sure I grew up in a unique setting, it seems unusual as I grow older.

So of you don't go to gymnasium, you CANNOT go to college?

American history lesson teacher says you live in America class dismissed

German education system > US system by far. Both are troubled in their own rights though.

I spent a few years in graduate school at the Max-Planck Institute for polymer research. German scientists had to write a Doktor Arbeit and a Hablitationschrift to get certain professorships. If you ever decide to make a video on this I’d like to provide insight.

Banicata is right. My grades were only average in 4th Grade, but I was actually bored. When they put me in an advanced math class in 7th grade, I finished 7th and 8th grade math. In the end, I started university on an Engineering track because I actually attended a Community College and took all of my required calculus classes before attending University.

Germany is better. The grade schools do not give preferential treatment to sports. Sports ruin a lot of kids education. Later.

Some comments here are a bit disrespectful. A couple months ago I was still a student in Germany. But it depends in which state you live in. I Live in Bavaria and some of these comments are saying that the German school system is not as hard as people make it seem like but let me tell you the school system I went through is one I wish no one to ever go through.
I remember the first pandemic that sent us into Quranteen. This was the most beautiful time I have ever experienced. I got to know myself for the first time more than ever before. The teaching was also different. But not just different, for the first time it actually made sense since the teachers were only allowed to give the most important information instead of making it so hard for us.
Going from science class (Realschule) to psychology (FOS) was also a change.
Psychology in 11th and 12th grade is fun but if no one tells you how to use thesis in examples it can go the wrong way even tho you studied hard.
I would never compare a Highschool diploma from the US with one from Bavaria.
Those are 2 different universes…respectfully.

Why is your decorative heart bloted out....behind you

Was für ne Frage ist das? Die Bildung an amerikanischen Schulen ist furchtbar. An Deutsche Schulen (zu mindest am Gymnasium) ist die Bildung viel besser. Keine Frage

Warum ist immer so viel Zensiert?
Why is always everything cencored?

You cant graduate a U.S. high school without taking an exam. For the state of AZ it was the AIMS exam, but that was many years ago.

If German schools are so much better than US why is the USA per capita GDP $76000 v Germany at $51000 per capita?